5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel"

By Book Marks | August 10, 2023

Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 10, 2023

Elizabeth Acevedo on Fun with Footnotes, Family History, and Alpha Vaginas

Elizabeth Acevedo on Fun with Footnotes, Family History, and Alpha Vaginas

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 10, 2023

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

John Fulton Recommends Max Porter, Claire Keegan, and More

By John Fulton | August 9, 2023

Percival Everett on Ralph Ellison's <em>Invisible Man</em>

Percival Everett on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 8, 2023

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

Joshua Glenn Chronicles the Development of Sci-Fi in the Early 20th Century

By Joshua Glenn | August 7, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
  • Repetition
  • Night Night Fawn
  • El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
  • Gunk
  • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Exploring Literary New Orleans

By History of Literature | August 7, 2023

Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

By Madeline Ashby | August 4, 2023

In Praise of "Spicy Interpretation": On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

By Jessica Sequeira | August 4, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Ann Patchett, Jamel Brinkley, Yepoka Yeebo, and More

By Book Marks | August 4, 2023

Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture and the Summer of Love or Hate

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 3, 2023

Wherefore Art Thou Arthur?: On What Lies Behind Our National Myths and Legends

Wherefore Art Thou Arthur?: On What Lies Behind Our National Myths and Legends

Victoria Gosling Interrogates, Deconstructs, and Reinterprets the Classic Story of King Arthur

By Victoria Gosling | August 3, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

Featuing Ama Codjoe, Renee Gladman, William Empson, and More

By Diana Arterian | August 3, 2023

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s <em>Orlando</em>

Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Hannah Bonner on the Utopian Future of Paul B. Preciado’s Orlando, My Political Biography

By Hannah Bonner | August 3, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Tapping into the sticky stuff of humanity, each story is a gift"

By Book Marks | August 3, 2023

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

On Queerness in the Mahabharata and Hiking the Himalayas for Inspiration

By Shastri Akella | July 31, 2023

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